Build Automation Contracts

Build Automation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Build Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Build Automation over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 517 611 745
Rank change year-on-year +94 +134 -124
Contract jobs citing Build Automation 67 86 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.15% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.17% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 71 66
10th Percentile £358 £450 £369
25th Percentile £409 £525 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% +8.70% +22.67%
75th Percentile £600 £738 £649
90th Percentile £875 £800 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £550 £574
% change year-on-year -22.73% -4.14% +27.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Build Automation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

Build Automation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Build Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Build Automation in the UK

Build Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Build Automation.

Daily rate trend for Build Automation in the UK

Build Automation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Build Automation over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Build Automation in the UK

Build Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Build Automation.

Hourly rate trend for Build Automation in the UK

Build Automation
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Build Automation within the UK over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +66 57 £475 -26.92% 11
Work from Home +118 39 £500 -13.87% 9
UK excluding London +43 31 £425 -22.73% 8
London +50 28 £574 -11.73% 4
North of England +27 15 £428 -14.50% 3
Yorkshire - 15 £428 - 1
South East +15 7 £550 -26.67% 1
Midlands +20 5 £356 -38.09% 1
East Midlands - 5 £356 -
Scotland +50 2 £425 - 1
East of England +5 1 - - 2
South West +2 1 - -

Build Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (7.46%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 13 (19.40%) Azure
2 10 (14.93%) AWS
3 9 (13.43%) IaaS
4 8 (11.94%) GitHub
4 8 (11.94%) OpenShift
5 3 (4.48%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (4.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (2.99%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.49%) CloudFront
7 1 (1.49%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.49%) Nutanix
7 1 (1.49%) PaaS
7 1 (1.49%) SaaS
7 1 (1.49%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (16.42%) NetScaler
2 4 (5.97%) DMZ
3 3 (4.48%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.49%) DNS
4 1 (1.49%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (16.42%) Relational Database
2 9 (13.43%) RDBMS
3 6 (8.96%) KDB
4 5 (7.46%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (5.97%) MongoDB
5 4 (5.97%) MySQL
5 4 (5.97%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.99%) CockroachDB
6 2 (2.99%) Power BI
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 13 (19.40%) Jenkins
1 13 (19.40%) JIRA
2 11 (16.42%) Git
3 6 (8.96%) TeamCity
4 5 (7.46%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (7.46%) CA Release Automation
4 5 (7.46%) GitLab
4 5 (7.46%) SonarQube
4 5 (7.46%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.49%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.49%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.49%) JUnit
5 1 (1.49%) Maven
5 1 (1.49%) Postman
5 1 (1.49%) Selenium
5 1 (1.49%) Subversion
5 1 (1.49%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.49%) WebDriver
General
1 20 (29.85%) Finance
1 20 (29.85%) Social Skills
2 11 (16.42%) Public Sector
3 9 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.46%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (5.97%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (16.42%) Architect
1 11 (16.42%) Senior
2 10 (14.93%) Consultant
3 9 (13.43%) Developer
4 6 (8.96%) KDB Developer
4 6 (8.96%) Senior Developer
4 6 (8.96%) Storage Engineer
4 6 (8.96%) Support Engineer
5 5 (7.46%) Analyst
5 5 (7.46%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Linux Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (5.97%) Storage Consultant
7 3 (4.48%) Kubernetes Consultant
7 3 (4.48%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Security Analyst
7 3 (4.48%) Senior Security Analyst
8 2 (2.99%) Citrix Architect
8 2 (2.99%) Django Developer
8 2 (2.99%) Python/Django Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (16.42%) SAML
2 8 (11.94%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (11.94%) REST
3 6 (8.96%) Spring Boot
4 2 (2.99%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.99%) Django
4 2 (2.99%) Kafka
4 2 (2.99%) Middleware
4 2 (2.99%) React
5 1 (1.49%) .NET
5 1 (1.49%) Gherkin
5 1 (1.49%) Keycloak
5 1 (1.49%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.43%) Linux Command Line
1 9 (13.43%) Product Ownership
2 6 (8.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (8.96%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.48%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (4.48%) Distributed Applications
3 3 (4.48%) Smart Meter
4 2 (2.99%) CMDB
4 2 (2.99%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.49%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.49%) Clustering
5 1 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.49%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.49%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.49%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (20.90%) Linux
2 10 (14.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 10 (14.93%) Windows
3 9 (13.43%) Unix
4 5 (7.46%) VMS
5 1 (1.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (47.76%) DevOps
2 30 (44.78%) CI/CD
3 26 (38.81%) Continuous Integration
4 19 (28.36%) Agile
5 17 (25.37%) ITIL
6 16 (23.88%) Continuous Delivery
7 15 (22.39%) Performance Analysis
8 13 (19.40%) Validation
9 12 (17.91%) Scrum
10 11 (16.42%) User Acceptance Testing
11 10 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (13.43%) Analytics
13 8 (11.94%) Containerisation
13 8 (11.94%) Infrastructure as Code
13 8 (11.94%) Microservices
13 8 (11.94%) Project Delivery
14 7 (10.45%) BDD
14 7 (10.45%) Privileged Access Management
14 7 (10.45%) Secrets Management
14 7 (10.45%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 13 (19.40%) Perl
1 13 (19.40%) Python
2 12 (17.91%) Bash
3 6 (8.96%) PowerShell
4 5 (7.46%) SQL
5 3 (4.48%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.99%) Java
6 2 (2.99%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.49%) C#
7 1 (1.49%) C++
7 1 (1.49%) VBA
7 1 (1.49%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (7.46%) SC Cleared
1 5 (7.46%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.97%) Degree
3 1 (1.49%) ISEB
3 1 (1.49%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.99%) PMO
2 1 (1.49%) QA
System Software
1 17 (25.37%) Docker
2 6 (8.96%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.97%) vSphere
4 1 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.49%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (29.85%) Ansible
1 20 (29.85%) Kubernetes
2 12 (17.91%) Terraform
3 7 (10.45%) Puppet
4 5 (7.46%) Kibana
4 5 (7.46%) Packer
4 5 (7.46%) Progress Chef
4 5 (7.46%) vRealize
5 1 (1.49%) NetBackup
5 1 (1.49%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (1.49%) VxRail
Vendors
1 15 (22.39%) EMC
2 11 (16.42%) Citrix
3 9 (13.43%) Red Hat
4 7 (10.45%) Centrify
4 7 (10.45%) CyberArk
4 7 (10.45%) Oracle
5 5 (7.46%) AppDynamics
5 5 (7.46%) Splunk
5 5 (7.46%) Veritas
5 5 (7.46%) VMware
6 4 (5.97%) Arqiva
7 1 (1.49%) Dell
7 1 (1.49%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.49%) SolarWinds